Word: newfound
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...fading from public life, revelations about his % activities during the war have prompted more reminiscences than recriminations. Pean prints a wartime letter he discovered from Henri Frenay, chief of the United Movement of the Resistance. An aide of Charles de Gaulle's Opposition-in-exile had questioned Mitterrand's newfound Resistance fervor, given his previous dedication to Vichy. "France's drama," Frenay wrote back, "is that its honest and impartial men believed, during a certain time, in Marshal Petain and placed their trust in him. They, without a doubt, made a mistake, but it was an innocent mistake that...
Unlike the old Soviet elite, who led quiet, if profoundly hypocritical, lives of sequestered privilege while paying lip service to Marxist notions of egalitarianism, the noviye bogati seem determined to part with their newfound wealth in the most ostentatious manner possible. "Russians who come to me want to spend their money and want it to show," says Mats Lofgren, a Swedish furniture dealer. "They won't waste their time on functional furniture. I show them the gold-plated faucets and ornate lamps, and they take it. I had a Russian come in recently who announced, 'My friend just spent...
...reacting to the first stirrings of a revived democracy movement. Not only are dissidents seeking public attention during a period in which the U.S. is demanding that China improve its human-rights record and Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader, is fading, but the hard-line government fears a newfound boldness among the activists. The men in power detect signs that their real nightmare -- an alliance of workers and intellectuals along the lines of Poland's Solidarity that could bring together a popular force mighty enough to topple them -- may be taking shape. After all, the increasing number of workers...
Still, he seemed to relish his newfound statusas a national champion as something special...
...narrative economy with which Truffaut establishes Jules and Jim's friendship leaves one breathless. Using jump cutting and dizzying montage, Truffaut conveys the excitement of a newfound friendship, paralleling the excitement the excitement of falling in love. Though they have women in their lives, Jules and Jim spend most of their time together, giving their friendship homoerotic overtones. Jim, an author, writes an autobiographical novel based on his friendship with Jules, and reads a passage to Jules which says, "They came to be known as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and soon, unknown to them, their behavior led to, much...